A27F018 vs XCVM2902
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 27 A27F018 and the AMD Versal Prime XCVM2902 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A27F018 | XCVM2902 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 27 | AMD Versal Prime |
| LUTs as published | 602,784 ALMs | 1,020,928 LUT6 |
| LUT type | adaptive logic module: fracturable 8-input LUT (one 6-input or two independent 4-input functions) | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈1,205,568 | ≈1,633,485 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 1,800,000 LE | 2,233,000 SLC |
| DSP | 2,208 AI Tensor DSP blocks | 2,672 DSP Engines |
| Block RAM | 86 Mb | 70 Mb |
| Large RAM | 115 Mb | 181 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 325 | 346 |
| Transceivers | 16 × GX 128 Gb/s, 16 × GS 32 Gb/s | 8 × GTYP 32.75 Gb/s, 36 × GTM 58 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen6 x8 | Gen5 x4 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A720 + Cortex-A520 (optional) | 2× Arm Cortex-A72 |
| Process | — | 7 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 1 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. LUT counts are shown as published; the LUT4 equivalent is an approximation to compare different LUT types, see how FPGA vendors count logic. Add up to two more devices to this comparison.
Key differences
The XCVM2902 has about 35% more logic capacity (1633K vs 1206K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A27F018 is built from ALMs and the XCVM2902 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (603K vs 1021K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCVM2902 has 2,672 DSP Engines against 2,208 AI Tensor DSP blocks on the A27F018.
The XCVM2902 has more on-chip memory (251 Mb vs 201 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 32 at up to 128 Gb/s on the A27F018 and 44 at up to 58 Gb/s on the XCVM2902.
The A27F018 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVM2902 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A27F018 (Agilex 27) and XCVM2902 (Versal Prime).